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>> Travis there's one coming... >> Most people do not understand the volume of trafficking that's going on in America, in our own backyard. >> People want to think that human trafficking only exists in foreign countries. >> Grab her, grab her, grab her! Hey! She's running! >> The recruitment is happening online, and on apps, and on social media where all the kids are. >> You are a product, and you have no other value. >>

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Coming this spring-- For more than two and a half years-- "Frontline" embedded with a special police unit-- >> We just learned that our arrest team is in position... >> That tries to recover women... >> I was out there for almost four years. I hated every second of it, I hated every call. >> Somebody sees me like arrested like this like the girls or the pimp or something and then... >> We're not out here just to give you guys a hard time. We really do want to help get you out, ok? >> Going undercover-- >> Once they friend me on Facebook, then I just go into their friend list and I just hit 'em all up with friend requests. >> And online-- >> Some of them, they put 24 and they're actually 15. (police radio) >> I have never ever met a trafficker that I felt sorry for. I mean they're literally selling humans day in and day out, and making money off of them. >> Stopping the traffickers and the buyers. >> Things cost different prices. >> Fetishes though are extra... >> Without customers there's no girls out there, without customers there's no pimps. >> From the award winning producers of "Poor Kids"-- >> They mentally trap you more, way more than physically. >> The inside story of a brutal crime. >> Hands behind your back! >> A drug is a usable quantity, that can be used up one time. A person can be trafficked over and over and over again, and that's why it's such a problem. >> And the consequences. >> For a lot of these victims, they spend years trying to rebuild their lives, and to have to rehash it all in trial, it's gotta be really, really difficult. >> With extraordinary access-- On the streets and through the struggles for justice. >> The state of Arizona... >> It's painstakingly long the time between the arrest and the time that we see a suspect in trial. >>...on behalf of the state... >> A story of courage-- >> What was taken from me the most is like, the idea of just having like, a normal relationship. (crying) >> In the face of the unthinkable. >> I want to have a future for myself, and like show the people who hurt me like, you know, you hurting me just made me stronger.